"Investigators are rushing to identify the victims and establish the cause of a devastating fire at a New Year's Eve party that ripped through a bar in the Swiss Alps town of Crans-Montana. Relatives and friends have been scrambling to find their loved ones, with many circulating photos on social media after the disaster that happened in the early hours of 2026, killing about 40 people and injuring about 115 others, many seriously."
"We tried to reach them; some of their locations are still showing here, Valais, a teenager who was attending the party, told the AFP news agency, nodding at the bar now shielded by opaque white tarpaulins and behind a wall of temporary barriers. We took loads of photos [and] we put them on Instagram, Facebook, every social network possible to try to find them, Eleonore, another one, said. But there's nothing. No response. We called the parents. Nothing. Even the parents don't know, she added."
A devastating fire ripped through a bar during a New Year's Eve party in Crans-Montana in the Swiss Alps, killing about 40 people and injuring about 115 others, many seriously. Relatives and friends circulated photos on social media while searching for missing attendees. Officials began identifying victims using dental records and DNA, warning some bodies were badly burned so identification could take days or weeks. Authorities said the priority is assigning names before notifying families. Bystanders described panic and chaos as people tried to break windows to escape and burned survivors poured into the street. The exact number present at the party remains unclear.
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